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Charlie Higson The Enemy Series 7 Books Collection
The
Charlie Higson's The Enemy is the first in a jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive. When the sickness came.
The
The Dead is the second book in Charlie Higson's jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive.
The
The sickness struck everyone over the age of fourteen. Mothers and fathers, older brothers, sisters and best friends. No one escaped its touch. And now children across London are being hunted by ferocious grown-ups.
The
The Sacrifice is the fourth gruesome and horrifying book in Charlie Higson's brilliant zombie series. The sickness destroyed everyone over the age of fourteen. All across London diseased adults are waiting.
The
First the sickness rotted the adults' minds. Then their bodies. Now they stalk the streets, hunting human flesh. The Holloway crew are survivors. They've fought their way across London and made it to the Natural History Museum alive - just.
The
The Hunted is Charlie Higson's sixth terrifying installment in the thrilling The Enemy series The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies.
The
It all comes to an end in the final book in The Enemy series The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets.
Charlie Higson The Enemy Series 7 Books Collection
The
Charlie Higson's The Enemy is the first in a jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive. When the sickness came.
The
The Dead is the second book in Charlie Higson's jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive.
The
The sickness struck everyone over the age of fourteen. Mothers and fathers, older brothers, sisters and best friends. No one escaped its touch. And now children across London are being hunted by ferocious grown-ups.
The
The Sacrifice is the fourth gruesome and horrifying book in Charlie Higson's brilliant zombie series. The sickness destroyed everyone over the age of fourteen. All across London diseased adults are waiting.
The
First the sickness rotted the adults' minds. Then their bodies. Now they stalk the streets, hunting human flesh. The Holloway crew are survivors. They've fought their way across London and made it to the Natural History Museum alive - just.
The
The Hunted is Charlie Higson's sixth terrifying installment in the thrilling The Enemy series The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies.
The
It all comes to an end in the final book in The Enemy series The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets.
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Published January 1, 2018
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About the author
Charlie Higson
83 books1,505 followersHigson was educated at Sevenoaks School and at the University of East Anglia (where his brother has taught since 1986 and is now a professor of film studies) where he met Paul Whitehouse, David Cummings and Terry Edwards. Higson, Cummings and Edwards formed the band The Higsons of which Higson was the lead singer from 1980 to 1986. They released two singles on the Specials' 2-Tone label. Higson then became a plasterer before he turned to writing for Harry Enfield with Paul Whitehouse and performing comedy. He came to public attention as one of the main writers and performers of the BBC Two sketch show The Fast Show (1994-2000). He worked with Whitehouse on the radio comedy Down the Line and is to work with him again on a television project, designed to be a spoof of celebrity travel programmes.[1:]
He worked as producer, writer, director and occasional guest star on Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) from 2000 to 2001. Subsequent television work has included writing and starring in BBC Three's Fast Show spin-off sitcom Swiss Toni. He is currently starring in Tittybangbang series 3 on BBC Three and has appeared as a panellist on QI.
He published four novels through the early to mid 1990s which take a slightly dystopian look at everyday life and have a considerably more adult tone than his other work, with characters on the margins of society finding themselves spiraling out of control, leading him to be described by Time Out as 'The missing link between Dick Emery and Brett Easton Ellis' [2:]
In 2004, it was announced that Higson would pen a series of James Bond novels, aimed at younger readers and concentrating on the character's school-days at Eton. Higson was himself educated at Sevenoaks School where he was a contemporary of Jonathan Evans, current Director General of MI5. The first novel, SilverFin, was released on 3 March 2005 in the UK and on 27 April 2005 in the U.S. A second novel, Blood Fever, was released on 5 January 2006 in the UK and 1 June in the U.S. The third novel, Double or Die, was published on 4 January 2007 having had its title announced the day before. The next, Hurricane Gold, came out in hardcover in the UK in September 2007.[3:]In this year he also made a debut performance on the panel show QI. His final Young Bond novel, By Royal Command, was released in hardcover in the UK on the 3 September 2008.[4:]
Charlie has signed a deal to pen a new series of children's books for Puffin. According to the author, "They are going to be action adventures, but with a horror angle
He worked as producer, writer, director and occasional guest star on Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) from 2000 to 2001. Subsequent television work has included writing and starring in BBC Three's Fast Show spin-off sitcom Swiss Toni. He is currently starring in Tittybangbang series 3 on BBC Three and has appeared as a panellist on QI.
He published four novels through the early to mid 1990s which take a slightly dystopian look at everyday life and have a considerably more adult tone than his other work, with characters on the margins of society finding themselves spiraling out of control, leading him to be described by Time Out as 'The missing link between Dick Emery and Brett Easton Ellis' [2:]
In 2004, it was announced that Higson would pen a series of James Bond novels, aimed at younger readers and concentrating on the character's school-days at Eton. Higson was himself educated at Sevenoaks School where he was a contemporary of Jonathan Evans, current Director General of MI5. The first novel, SilverFin, was released on 3 March 2005 in the UK and on 27 April 2005 in the U.S. A second novel, Blood Fever, was released on 5 January 2006 in the UK and 1 June in the U.S. The third novel, Double or Die, was published on 4 January 2007 having had its title announced the day before. The next, Hurricane Gold, came out in hardcover in the UK in September 2007.[3:]In this year he also made a debut performance on the panel show QI. His final Young Bond novel, By Royal Command, was released in hardcover in the UK on the 3 September 2008.[4:]
Charlie has signed a deal to pen a new series of children's books for Puffin. According to the author, "They are going to be action adventures, but with a horror angle
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May 14, 2022
Even though I finished this series several years ago, I cannot help being drawn back to it. I know this will always be my favourite book series for the impact it left on me and the way it got me back into reading.
This book was so masterfully written, the way Higson was able to develop every one of the characters (and there were a LOT) so that we'd become attach. I would like to say if I ever met Higson, I'd make sure he knew how much heart ache he put me through killing more than 50 of his characters. But then again, it was a dystopian book. I never stopped reading this series until, after a week, I'd got through all 7 books.
To make all the characters stories intertwine and, at times, have us as the omnipotent reader, immersed me so much and yet left me so frustrated at how I knew more than the characters at times.
Overall this series fulfilled every one of my younger self's wishes in a book series. So, whilst I hate you for the permanent heart ache you've given me, thank you for getting me back into reading Charlie Higson.
This book was so masterfully written, the way Higson was able to develop every one of the characters (and there were a LOT) so that we'd become attach. I would like to say if I ever met Higson, I'd make sure he knew how much heart ache he put me through killing more than 50 of his characters. But then again, it was a dystopian book. I never stopped reading this series until, after a week, I'd got through all 7 books.
To make all the characters stories intertwine and, at times, have us as the omnipotent reader, immersed me so much and yet left me so frustrated at how I knew more than the characters at times.
Overall this series fulfilled every one of my younger self's wishes in a book series. So, whilst I hate you for the permanent heart ache you've given me, thank you for getting me back into reading Charlie Higson.
May 24, 2022
After reading this from start to finish, this is the kind of series that leaves you pondering on it, even after turning over the final page of the last book.
After considering a suggestion given by a clerk at my favorite bookstore, I decided to give this series a try. I had told her that I was fond of dystopian books—thrills, suspense, danger—even a little violence here and there was acceptable. That was when she offered up The Enemy. I was a little hesitant going into it, but I was too curious to reject the first book entirely.
Safe to say, after reading The Enemy I was hooked.
Plain and simple. Opinions differ on this but I personally thought this series was constructed very well. You have storylines of different characters within the stories themselves, all occurring at different places at different times, eventually aligning with one another until colliding entirely in The End—literally and figuratively, in fact.
The characters. So many diverse, colorful characters, each with a distinct personality. Throughout the books I’ve seen characters built up and torn apart, becoming versions of themselves you wouldn’t have imagined them to be in the first or second book. Charlie Higson’s understanding of how to take a type of person we see in every day life—that type of innocent person we each see in ourselves—a child—into a grinding, surviving, tough, courageous, heroic character in the face of trauma and turmoil—is excellent.
Out of all the characters in the series, my absolute favorite character would have to be The Kid—known for his wild black hair and even wilder vocabulary. As a reader, I could picture him vividly in my mind. He entertained me a lot through the books, and I suppose that’s why The Sacrifice is my favorite book out of the seven. I thought The Kid’s need to protect Sam was so sweet. As I was reading through The End, I literally said aloud, “If Charlie Higson kills off The Kid, I’m burning this book.”
But spoiler, The Kid lives! (And no books were harmed in the process).
After reading the series, I only have two complaints: too many characters, and what I felt was an insufficient ending to the series.
As I said before, Charlie Higson created a lot of characters for this series. But as a reader, I felt like the overwhelming influx of new characters as the books progressed became a little too much. He would introduce me to one or two characters in book two, then refer to them again in book five as if I would remember them off the top of my head. This is something I felt like he often did, and there had been many times where I had to pause and try to remember who the returning character was on the page.
Another problem associated with so many names and so many characters in each book is this: my brain can only paint so many descriptions of so many characters at a time in my head. All of the “important” characters in the books—such as Maxie, Blue, Ed, David, Akkie, The Kid, Sam, etc, etc—had solid, vivid images locked in my brain. Obviously, because you were seeing the story unfold from their perspectives, and their descriptions were thrown around quite a bit. But then you had some not-so-significant characters, such as Pod, Will, Jibber-Jabber, Yo-Yo, Franny, Rose—just a very few of the many examples I could give—who became sort of blurred silhouettes in my mind. My brain never really knew what to put down for appearances for those children, so they sort of just became blurs in my mind, not really having any distinct physical features. As a reader, it annoys me a little bit not to have something tangible to hold on to for each character.
I’m really not that picky. I don’t need a page and a half description of each character you throw in my direction, but I need some sort of detail (preferably a physical feature rather than an object) that makes them stand out, makes them easy to envision, makes them unlike the other characters you’ve introduced me to before—especially when you have as generous of an amount of characters as you have in this series. For the most part, I think Charlie Higson did a decent job of this, but I just wanted to point that out; I’m wondering if any other readers felt the same way, or if I just have a weak imagination, haha.
The second complaint I had was the ending to the series, particularly the ending of The End. It wasn’t that the last book was poorly written, or that there was some struggles with character identification—the ending just felt rushed.
Perhaps that was the intention, which is something I may never know, but the ending of the series felt incomplete to me. By the time I finished the last page, I remembered thinking: Really? That’s it?
It wasn’t that the ending was bad, but I just felt that it was dissatisfying. Do they actually—successfully—make a cure? Did they really kill all the sickos (grown-ups)? What if they didn’t? Wormwood assumes he’s the only adult left in London. By his assumption, does he foreshadow that healthier adults exist in the world? In London? The palace is overrun by the squatters in Just John’s camp. What happens to the children who’ve been working there? Do they run away? Are they killed by the squatters? Do they kill the squatters? Take control? Speaking of which, does anybody ever retake control of the palace?
Questions, questions, questions.
Maybe the ending was intended to leave questions, but regardless; it still annoys me just a little bit. As I was reading, nearing the end of The End, I wondered if there would be a chapter or two that would fast forward a couple months or a year later after everything happened. That would’ve been nice—some closure, some insight on how the characters were rebuilding. But the open-ended ending was most likely intentional, left to keep you wondering.
Which, I suppose, is why this was such an awesome series. Lots of plot twists, adrenaline-packed thrills, untimely deaths, and enough violence to last you a lifetime and beyond.
Overall, this series has been a wild ride, and after reading all the books, I can say with some sort of twisted pride that I may never look at the city of London the same way again.
For thriller, horror, suspense, action and apocalyptic fans out there, this series is definitely for you.
After considering a suggestion given by a clerk at my favorite bookstore, I decided to give this series a try. I had told her that I was fond of dystopian books—thrills, suspense, danger—even a little violence here and there was acceptable. That was when she offered up The Enemy. I was a little hesitant going into it, but I was too curious to reject the first book entirely.
Safe to say, after reading The Enemy I was hooked.
Plain and simple. Opinions differ on this but I personally thought this series was constructed very well. You have storylines of different characters within the stories themselves, all occurring at different places at different times, eventually aligning with one another until colliding entirely in The End—literally and figuratively, in fact.
The characters. So many diverse, colorful characters, each with a distinct personality. Throughout the books I’ve seen characters built up and torn apart, becoming versions of themselves you wouldn’t have imagined them to be in the first or second book. Charlie Higson’s understanding of how to take a type of person we see in every day life—that type of innocent person we each see in ourselves—a child—into a grinding, surviving, tough, courageous, heroic character in the face of trauma and turmoil—is excellent.
Out of all the characters in the series, my absolute favorite character would have to be The Kid—known for his wild black hair and even wilder vocabulary. As a reader, I could picture him vividly in my mind. He entertained me a lot through the books, and I suppose that’s why The Sacrifice is my favorite book out of the seven. I thought The Kid’s need to protect Sam was so sweet. As I was reading through The End, I literally said aloud, “If Charlie Higson kills off The Kid, I’m burning this book.”
But spoiler, The Kid lives! (And no books were harmed in the process).
After reading the series, I only have two complaints: too many characters, and what I felt was an insufficient ending to the series.
As I said before, Charlie Higson created a lot of characters for this series. But as a reader, I felt like the overwhelming influx of new characters as the books progressed became a little too much. He would introduce me to one or two characters in book two, then refer to them again in book five as if I would remember them off the top of my head. This is something I felt like he often did, and there had been many times where I had to pause and try to remember who the returning character was on the page.
Another problem associated with so many names and so many characters in each book is this: my brain can only paint so many descriptions of so many characters at a time in my head. All of the “important” characters in the books—such as Maxie, Blue, Ed, David, Akkie, The Kid, Sam, etc, etc—had solid, vivid images locked in my brain. Obviously, because you were seeing the story unfold from their perspectives, and their descriptions were thrown around quite a bit. But then you had some not-so-significant characters, such as Pod, Will, Jibber-Jabber, Yo-Yo, Franny, Rose—just a very few of the many examples I could give—who became sort of blurred silhouettes in my mind. My brain never really knew what to put down for appearances for those children, so they sort of just became blurs in my mind, not really having any distinct physical features. As a reader, it annoys me a little bit not to have something tangible to hold on to for each character.
I’m really not that picky. I don’t need a page and a half description of each character you throw in my direction, but I need some sort of detail (preferably a physical feature rather than an object) that makes them stand out, makes them easy to envision, makes them unlike the other characters you’ve introduced me to before—especially when you have as generous of an amount of characters as you have in this series. For the most part, I think Charlie Higson did a decent job of this, but I just wanted to point that out; I’m wondering if any other readers felt the same way, or if I just have a weak imagination, haha.
The second complaint I had was the ending to the series, particularly the ending of The End. It wasn’t that the last book was poorly written, or that there was some struggles with character identification—the ending just felt rushed.
Perhaps that was the intention, which is something I may never know, but the ending of the series felt incomplete to me. By the time I finished the last page, I remembered thinking: Really? That’s it?
It wasn’t that the ending was bad, but I just felt that it was dissatisfying. Do they actually—successfully—make a cure? Did they really kill all the sickos (grown-ups)? What if they didn’t? Wormwood assumes he’s the only adult left in London. By his assumption, does he foreshadow that healthier adults exist in the world? In London? The palace is overrun by the squatters in Just John’s camp. What happens to the children who’ve been working there? Do they run away? Are they killed by the squatters? Do they kill the squatters? Take control? Speaking of which, does anybody ever retake control of the palace?
Questions, questions, questions.
Maybe the ending was intended to leave questions, but regardless; it still annoys me just a little bit. As I was reading, nearing the end of The End, I wondered if there would be a chapter or two that would fast forward a couple months or a year later after everything happened. That would’ve been nice—some closure, some insight on how the characters were rebuilding. But the open-ended ending was most likely intentional, left to keep you wondering.
Which, I suppose, is why this was such an awesome series. Lots of plot twists, adrenaline-packed thrills, untimely deaths, and enough violence to last you a lifetime and beyond.
Overall, this series has been a wild ride, and after reading all the books, I can say with some sort of twisted pride that I may never look at the city of London the same way again.
For thriller, horror, suspense, action and apocalyptic fans out there, this series is definitely for you.
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May 15, 2020
A really good series. There isn't a wide fan base & the timeline can get kind of confusing. Overall, my favorite series
November 5, 2020
One of the best series I've ever read
July 30, 2023
Soo good I made my friend start reading them
December 30, 2023
Fucking BANGER I LOVED THE CHARACTERS AND SILLIES!! Jack's death wrecked me, Nicolas death was so random i still hate David for that, I absolutely ADORE Sam and the kid, and Mad Matt was the silliest of the sillies ( I am not okay )
10/10 book series!! I like the writing and the descriptiveness, it has nice plot with multiple groups povs that all connect in the later books (which i love), and you're constantly on your toes with all the deaths happening lol.
10/10 book series!! I like the writing and the descriptiveness, it has nice plot with multiple groups povs that all connect in the later books (which i love), and you're constantly on your toes with all the deaths happening lol.
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July 22, 2025
I really enjoyed this series. The author cleverly interlinks the stories of several groups of people until it reaches a climatic battle at the end. Full of heroes, villains and, most importantly, zombies, and writing spares no sentimentality because the victims are children. Highly recommended.
November 19, 2021
If you like post apocalyptic adventure and you're the sort of person who can ignore the gore and gunge, then this fast moving series is for you.
January 14, 2022
Every book made me cry. THE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE IN THE SECOND BOOK. I mean the first was bad and all ( Poor Arran) BUT JACK AND ED’S FINAL INTERACTION. tears mate.
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November 17, 2024
However these went hard.
March 19, 2024
This is one of my all-time favourite series of books, which describes a world in which everyone over the age of 18 has become a cannibalistic zombie, and different groups of surviving children (each novel focusing upon a different group as their destinies converge) find themselves shifting their goal from merely surviving to attempting to prevent a catastrophe that will wipe out the remaining human population once and for all. While these books are aimed at a Young Adult readership, featuring an almost exclusively younger cast of characters, I can promise you that adults will be equally traumatised - if not more so - after reading. I could not recommend this series more highly.
January 23, 2019
Really love this series so far!!! So good!!!!
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